I just wanted to leave this here for anyone who might have the same issue.I came from a fresh install from a daily spin of gnome. I upgraded, needed more features in my kernel for usb tethering resulting in a kernel rebuild and, rebooted. This resulted with no wireless card shown. I looked in dmesg and saw

Thanks for posting, Ephemer0l. If you would file a bug report in the SL Bugzilla (see link Bugs at the top of this page) to bring it to the attention of the SL developers, that would be appreciated. Maybe they can fix it in the Entropy package.